How I Use ANY Send FX Plugin On ANY Desk With Gig Performer

I love lush verbs and vibey delays, but not every console has ‘em…

After you’ve mastered the fundamentals in mixing, tasteful use of FX is really what elevates your game. A subtle slapback on the vocal or just the right plate verb on the snare can really make things sing.

However, if you’re constantly mixing in different environments on whatever desk is supplied for that gig then your “tonal palette” of FX changes drastically. You could be stuck with a Pro2C and only have 6 FX slots total, OR have a RIVAGE series desk with wonderful Bricasti verbs.

Now that 99% of my gigs are on digital desks with some type of digital IO, I decided to take my FX into my hands…well, my own laptop.

Enter Gig Performer - the most flexible, stable, live performance plugin host you could ever ask for.

I use it for my own hobby bass and guitar gigs, but have yet to really push it into my FOH mixing duties. Today I’d like to show you v1 of my send FX template and walk you through step by step on how to set it up.

We’ll cover:

• Why I prefer Gig Performer over a Waves Server or Live Professor
• The biggest time saving feature Gig Performer has to offer
• How to build your own Rackspaces from scratch